The 1986 People Power Revolution ushered in new strategies for change, especially for the Philippine Left. For Bernabe 'Commander Dante' Buscayno, founder of the New People's Army (NPA), the change could be achieved not through the communist insurgency but through an economic venture, the People's Livelihood Foundation-Tarlac Integrated Livelihood Cooperative (PLF-TIL CO). Yet despite a new political dispensation, problems of the past, such as powerful socioeconomic forces, patronage politics, and government inadequacies, continued to linger. Buscayno's cooperative ultimately collapsed under the weight of these problems.